Denise Rose Hansen is WIAS’s Executive Assistant. Denise holds an MA in English Studies, University of Copenhagen (Distinction; 2016) and a BA Honours in Creative Writing with English Literature, University of Westminster (Distinction; 2013). Her focus throughout her master’s degree has been 21st-century British and American fiction and the novel medium can renew itself formally and narratively in a digital media environment.

Fellows

Sebastian Sevignani

Sebastian Sevignani is Assistant Professor at the Department for General Sociology and Sociological Theory, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Sebastian is based at WIAS from 2 May – 31 July 2017. During his fellowship, he will be working on a two-fold project that explores how we might reformulate the critique that capitalism subsumes need-development to profits and cuts off potentials for human flourishing under current circumstances of informatisation and social media.

Benjamin J Birkinbine

Benjamin J Birkinbine is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of Nevada, Reno. Whilst based at WIAS (2 May 2017 – 31 July 2017), Benjamin will be working towards a critical theory of the digital commons.

Mariano Zukerfeld

Mariano Zukerfeld is a researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Whilst based at WIAS (3 April 2017 – 31 May 2017), Mariano will be working on a project focusing on the exploitation of online teachers in informational capitalism.

Ergin Bulut

Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at Koc University in Turkey. He will start his WIAS fellowship on 1 June 2017. During his fellowship, Ergin will focus on labour conditions in the video game industry.

Arwid Lund

Arwid Lund is a Lecturer at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. During his WIAS fellowship, he is studying discourses on open knowledge. He completed the first part of his stay in July 2016 and commenced the second part on 3 April 2017.

Bingqing Xia

Bingqing Xia is Assistant Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. She was based at WIAS December 2016 – February 2017 and will complete her fellowship June – July 2017. Her research focuses on the Chinese Internet economy in the context of crisis tendencies.

Claudio Celis Bueno is a postdoc researcher at Diego Portales University in Chile. His fellowship project started on 5 September 2016 and focused on the analysis of the role of digital media in the movies of the filmmaker and video artist Harun Farocki.

Visiting Researchers

Xavi Cava

Xavi is a research fellow visiting us from the University of Barcelona. During his time at WIAS (September – November 2016), he will be working on a project that focuses on a critical-theoretical approach to the use of social media as merchandise and its effects on consumers’ cognition.

Robert Rothmann

Robert is a PhD fellow visiting us from the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Vienna. During his time at WIAS (September – October 2016), he will be working on his PhD project Privacy, Surveillance and Informed Consent in Digital Environments: The Facebook Case Study.

Gabriela Raulino

Gabriela Raulino is an Associate Researcher visiting us from the Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil. During her time at WIAS (July 2016-March 2017), she will be working on a project entitled From Fun to Profit: Facebook Audience Labour on Capital Accumulation, in which she analyses capital accumulation on Facebook, focusing on unpaid audience labour.